Rose Hawthorne Lathrop was an American poet and social worker who dedicated her life to the Catholic church, becoming a nun and then calling herself Mother Mary Alphonsa. For her achievements in the care of cancer sufferers she received a number of awards and, in 2003, she was canonised by the Cardinal Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. From then on she ...
Roderic Quinn was an Australian poet and newspaper editor who modestly described himself as “a pleasant minor poet”. He was known for his genuine courtesy and deference to his fellow man. Fellow writer Norman Lindsay said of him: “….he was a kindly man, for I never heard him say anything depreciative of others, either their works of their personalities”. He never married throughout ...
Richard Rolle, also often called Richard Rolle de Hampole, was a 14th century English mystical writer and composer of devotional prose that was mostly for the benefit of women readers. He was a hermit for most of his lifetime, originally from the northern part of the county of Yorkshire until eventually settling close to Hampole Cistercian nunnery in the southern area of the county. A number of ...
Richard Rowe was an English-born writer, tutor and journalist who emigrated to New South Wales, Australia when in his mid-20s. He was born on the 9th March 1828 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, the son of a Wesleyan minister. Unfortunately his father died while Richard was still an infant and the family moved south to the Essex town of Colchester. At the age of 25 ...
Richard Savage was an 18th century English poet and writer of tragi-comedy plays whose historical details are, unusually, mostly known from the contents of a biography written about him by Samuel Johnson, which he called Life of Mr Richard Savage. This book was published in 1744, a year after the subject’s death. Naturally though, one should view Johnson’s observations with a little ...
Richard Watson Dixon was an English poet and Wesleyan minister of the 19th century. He was born on the 5th May 1833 in the London borough of Islington, the son of a notable Wesleyan preacher of the time called Dr James Dixon. His parents sent him to be educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, whose headmaster was the eminent Anglican minister Dr Gifford. ...
Richard Watson Gilder was an American poet, newspaper editor and private soldier in the Unionist army during the Civil War. Many of his poems featured artistic themes such as the theatre, music and art although he did write a great deal of material describing his wartime experiences. He had the honour of having one of his most famous war poems, The Dead ...
Rida Johnson Young was a late 19th/early 20th century writer of music and plays. She was a prolific writer of songs and at least five hundred compositions have been credited to her. Additionally she was a playwright with some thirty plays and musicals under her belt and was also an accomplished librettist. Her outstanding efforts as a song writer earned her a place ...
Robert Blair was an 18th century Scottish poet and man of the cloth who followed his father, one of the King’s chaplains, into the ministry. He only published three poems in his relatively short life time but one of these brought him a great deal of fame. It is a long piece of blank verse, numbering some 767 lines, called The Grave. Later ...
Robert Bloomfield was an English poet who grew up in a rural, working class environment during the late 18th century. He loved to write poetry and his efforts have been compared favourably with the likes of other pastoral poets such as George Crabbe and John Clare. He had a period of relative prosperity due to his work becoming known worldwide before ...
